Katie

“I hated the soup and felt little for the can.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“The seamen had whitewashed the smoky ceilings of the ward, and that dear homely smell carried the vividness of thatch and lumpy walls and stew given from the goodness of a stranger's heart. But that was all there was of comfort, and the salt air had turned from cold to warm in the passing of a life, an afternoon.”
― Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America

“Three rebellions ago, the air was fresher. The soft pasting noises of the rebel billposters remind us of Oklahoma, where everything is still the same.”
― Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories

“Everything began with a single breath. A light wind that started a sway, and the sway started a turn, and the turn... The turn started everything.”
― Jim McCann, Return of the Dapper Men